Usability Resources

Introduction

Resources to Web Usability, Usability Testing, Interface Design and more to design and create user friendly and intuitive user interfaces for web sites and desktop applications.

Computers and the world wide web are not the exclusive realm of geeks and academics anymore. They became mainstream and are used by normal people who are no expects about computer technology and most importantly, have not the attention-span and willingness to invest large amounts of their time to figure out how your application or website works and to use it the way you want them to use it, because it is the way you think is right.

This also means that this space is big business now and should be taken more serious. Competition also increases and doing a better job in ease to use your product or service might provides you with the edge needed to get ahead of the pack and leader in the space.

If your product is hard to figure out and impossible to use without spending an extensive time to learn it and somebody else did, chances are good that you are losing plenty of business to that somebody. Business that you could have, if you would have designed your interfaces in a way to make it as easy and intuitive for the user to "get it".

Here are some resources that will help you with the design and testing of your interfaces and to improve them to make them easier to use.